I've been a diehard free & open source software user, contributor, and backer since college in the 90s. But at this point, I would rather run proprietary software that I can NEVER see or change if the alternative is to run software licensed by the FSF.
I should add that unless he's been doing this work since he was a child, he wasn't doing this work since before it was an issue, just since before *you* took it seriously. E.g., Dr Spertus's landmark paper was 1991, and it was hardly the beginning: http://www.spertus.com/ellen/Gender/pap/pap.html …
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Can you really hold Mako accountable for something that happens on a huge platform? Are you disallowed from contributing to an organization with flawed elements? Can you (Sarah or whoever) reasonably say that the organization you work for/with has no bad actors?
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Untagging everybody from days-late reply. In short, yes. If people benefit from or have power over something, they are responsible for it to the extent either of those is true. 1/
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Yes, people should work on flawed things. But if those flaws are enduring, it's reasonable to ask if those people accept those flaws, or even like them. 2/2
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I'd also like to clarify that my quoted "issues" meant "before these topics were in a wider spotlight", where they should have always been. I have probably taken way too long to take them seriously, but this happened many years ago. Sadly I was largely unaware of many of them.
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